Osql.exe as a standalone utility?

Question

I have an installer which installs the application files and creates a sql server database by running a .sql file with the osql.exe utility.This approach works fine if the installer in
running in a machine which has sql server/express 2008 installed.But since in production scenarios the app server and database server are generally in two different machines and the installer will be running in the app server machine,the installer fails to
create the database because it cannot find the osql.exe utility in the app server machine which does not have sql server installed.Is there any way to run the osql.exe as a separate utility from a machine which does not have sql server ?

Answer 1

I am not sure what type of script you are trying to deploy, are you using CLR? or just vanilla T-SQL
To resolve this problem, install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package.
To obtain the 32-bit version of the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package, visit the following Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en
To obtain the 64-bit version of the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package, visit the following Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BD2A6171-E2D6-4230-B809-9A8D7548C1B6&displaylang=en 
You may want to try SQLCMD as already suggested, separate download is avaialble as part of
SQL Server Feature Pack